Foreword by Ostap Slyvynsky; Apples From a Forgotten Garden; In a Race Against War; The Island of Gammalsvenskby; Teacherss Day; Cleaved; Olha Petrivna, the Baron; Wheres Mama?; Station L; White Sun, Black Wine; The Sway of the Guilder; Music Played on Wooden Spoons; The Polish Experiment; Home; Solitude Amidst Walnut Trees; Acknowledgments.
Olesya Yaremchuk is an acclaimed Ukrainian author and journalist
focusing on travel anthropology, cultural and national identity,
and the frontier. She holds a degree in journalism from the Ivan
Franko National University of Lviv. Her doctoral dissertation,
entitled Travel Anthropology in the Literary Reportages of Joseph
Roth, was completed in 2018 jointly at this same institution and
the University of Vienna, where she held an OeAD Research
Fellowship. Yaremchuk has served as the editor-in-chief of the
Choven Publishing House, a Ukrainian press specializing in
reportage and documentary literature, and has contributed as a
journalist to various publications both in Ukraine and abroad. She
is a winner of the Samovydets Literary Reportage Award and the
LitAccent of the Year Award, both in Ukraine, as well as a finalist
of the ADAMI Media Prize and the Lviv UNESCO City of Literature
Award.
Contributing authors:
Marta Barnych is a Ukrainian graphic designer, artist, and
journalist.
Anton Semyzhenko is a journalist and editor. In 2018, he received
the Honor of the Profession Journalism Award in Ukraine.
The author of the foreword:
Dr. Ostap Slyvynsky is a Ukrainian poet, translator, and literary
critic, who currently teaches Eastern European literature at the
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.
Translators:
Zenia Tompkins is an American literary translator and the founder
of the Tompkins Agency for Ukrainian Literature in Translation
(TAULT), a nonprofit literary agency and translation house.
Hanna Leliv is a literary translator in Ukraine. Her translations
from English have included books by Stephen Hawking, Kazuo
Ishiguro, and Ernest Hemingway.
"The stories in Our Others are, first and foremost, about rupture
and dispersion—of individual people, families, and entire nations.
The author has taken on a great responsibility: of lending a voice
to the unheard, to those society prefers to not notice, to those
who are permitted to express themselves and become visible only
within predefined limits."—Bohdana Romantsova, PhD, literary
critic
"Yaremchuk’s reportages truly are artistic, with emotional 'hooks'
at the beginning and fat periods at the end, when you are left
shaking with sobs before you’ve even turned the page."—Roman
Kabachiy, PhD, journalist and historian
"Olesya Yaremchuk’s Our Others is a brilliant example of the
documentary genre: The author attains a didactic (in the positive
sense of the word) effect, not by lecturing, but simply by
narrating. As you read, you appreciate how much work, skill, and
soul were invested into the book. This book is deep and
honest."—Hanna Uliura, PhD, literary critic
"'Our Others. Stories of Ukrainian Diversity' is not just a series
of reports on national minorities. This book is primarily about the
disappearance of memory. In a fresh and original voice, Olesya
Yaremchuk tells the stories of ethnic communities in Ukraine that
are on the verge of oblivion: some go abroad, others assimilate. In
any case, their numbers decrease with every passing year. Will the
next generation preserve the customs and traditions of its
predecessors? And most importantly - are we Ukrainians ready to
accept and celebrate "our others"?"—Lilia Shutiak, Apofenie, June
9, 2021
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